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PULSED optical emission has been detected from the Vela pulsar, PSR 0833–45. Double pulses were detected from an area which included Lasker's1 star M. The pulsed emission has a time-averaged blue magnitude of approximately 25.2 min.
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WALLACE, P., PETERSON, B., MURDIN, P. et al. Detection of optical pulses from the Vela pulsar. Nature 266, 692–694 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/266692a0
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